Create VIEW EmployeesView
AS
SELECT id,
       FirstName
FROM   Employees

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace EF_Sample04.Models
{
    [Table("EmployeesView")]
    public class EmployeesView
    {
        public int Id { set; get; }
        public string FirstName { set; get; }
    }
}

There is already an object named 'EmployeesView' in the database.

Database.SetInitializer<Sample04Context>(null);

Add-Migration Init -IgnoreChanges
Update-Database

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace EF_Sample04.Models
{
    public class MyXMLTable
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }

        [Column(TypeName = "xml")]
        public string XmlValue { get; set; }

        [NotMapped]
        public XElement XmlValueWrapper
        {
            get { return XElement.Parse(XmlValue); }
            set { XmlValue = value.ToString(); }
        }
    }
}

namespace EF_Sample04.Models
{
    public class ActivityType
    {
        public int UserId { set; get; }
        public int ActivityID { get; set; }
    }
}

using System.Data.Entity.ModelConfiguration;
using EF_Sample04.Models;

namespace EF_Sample04.Mappings
{
    public class ActivityTypeConfig : EntityTypeConfiguration<ActivityType>
    {
        public ActivityTypeConfig()
        {
            this.HasKey(x => new { x.ActivityID, x.UserId });
        }
    }
}

var activity1 = db.ActivityTypes.Find(4, 1);

using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace EF_Sample04.Models
{
    public class Employee
    {
        public int Id { set; get; }
        public string FirstName { get; set; }
        public string LastName { get; set; }

        //public int? ManagerID { get; set; }
        public virtual Employee Manager { get; set; }       
    }
}

using System.Data.Entity.ModelConfiguration;
using EF_Sample04.Models;

namespace EF_Sample04.Mappings
{
    public class EmployeeConfig : EntityTypeConfiguration<Employee>
    {
        public EmployeeConfig()
        {
            this.HasOptional(x => x.Manager)
                .WithMany()
                //.HasForeignKey(x => x.ManagerID)
                .WillCascadeOnDelete(false);
        }
    }
}

using System.Linq;

public class CLinq
{
 public static string GetCommaSeparatedListNormal(string[] data)
 {
     string items = string.Empty;

     foreach (var item in data)
     {
         items += item + ", ";
     }

     return items.Remove(items.Length - 2, 1).Trim();
 }

 public static string GetCommaSeparatedList(string[] data)
 {
     return data.Aggregate((s1, s2) => s1 + ", " + s2);
 }
}

var names = new[] { "name1", "name2", "name3", "name4", "name5", "name6", "name7" };

using System.Linq;

public class CLinq
{
 public static int GetCountNormal()
 {
     var names = new[] { "name1", "name2", "name3", "name4", "name5", "name6", "name7" };
     var count = 0;
     foreach (var name in names)
     {
         if (name.Contains("name"))
             count += 1;
     }
     return count;
 }

 public static int GetCount()
 {
     var names = new[] { "name1", "name2", "name3", "name4", "name5", "name6", "name7" };
     return names.Count(name => name.Contains("name"));
 }
}

using System.Linq;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class CLinq
{
 public static List<string> GetListNormal()
 {
     List<string> sampleList = new List<string>() { "A1", "A2", "P1", "P10", "B1", "B@", "J30", "P12" };
     List<string> result = new List<string>();
     foreach (var item in sampleList)
     {
         if (item.StartsWith("P"))
             result.Add(item);
     }
     return result;
 }

 public static List<string> GetList()
 {
     List<string> sampleList = new List<string>() { "A1", "A2", "P1", "P10", "B1", "B@", "J30", "P12" };
     return sampleList.Where(x => x.StartsWith("P")).ToList();
 }
}

public class Person
{
    public string FullName {
        get
        {
            return FirstName + " " + LastName;
        }
    }
}

public partial class Person
{
    public string FirstName {get; set;}
    public string LastName {get; set; }
}
public partial class Person
{
    public string FullName {
        get
        {
            return FirstName + " " + LastName;
        }
    }
}

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace LinqToRSS
{
 public static class LanguageExtender
 {
     public static string SafeValue(this XElement input)
     {
         return (input == null) ? string.Empty : input.Value;
     }

     public static DateTime SafeDateValue(this XElement input)
     {
         return (input == null) ? DateTime.MinValue : DateTime.Parse(input.Value);
     }
 }

 public class RssEntry
 {
     public string Title { set; get; }
     public string Description { set; get; }
     public string Link { set; get; }
     public DateTime PublicationDate { set; get; }
     public string Author { set; get; }
     public string BlogName { set; get; }
     public string BlogAddress { set; get; }
 }

 public class Rss
 {
     static XElement selectDate(XElement date1, XElement date2)
     {
         return date1 ?? date2;
     }

     public static List<RssEntry> GetEntries(string feedUrl)
     {
         //applying namespace in an XElement
         XName xn = XName.Get("{http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/}creator");//{namespace}root
         XName xn2 = XName.Get("{http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/}date");

         var feed = XDocument.Load(feedUrl);
         if (feed.Root == null) return null;

         var items = feed.Root.Element("channel").Elements("item");
         var feedQuery =
             from item in items
             select new RssEntry
                        {
                            Title = item.Element("title").SafeValue(),
                            Description = item.Element("description").SafeValue(),
                            Link = item.Element("link").SafeValue(),
                            PublicationDate =
                                selectDate(item.Element(xn2), item.Element("pubDate")).SafeDateValue(),
                            Author = item.Element(xn).SafeValue(),
                            BlogName = item.Parent.Element("title").SafeValue(),
                            BlogAddress = item.Parent.Element("link").SafeValue()
                        };

         return feedQuery.ToList();
     }
 }

 class Program
 {
     static void Main(string[] args)
     {
         List<RssEntry> entries = Rss.GetEntries("http://weblogs.asp.net/aspnet-team/rss.aspx");
         if (entries != null)
             foreach (var item in entries)
                 Console.WriteLine(item.Title);

         Console.WriteLine("Press a key...");
         Console.ReadKey();
     }
 }
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">
<channel>
 <title>Latest Microsoft Blogs</title>
 <link>http://weblogs.asp.net/aspnet-team/default.aspx</link>
 <description />
 <dc:language>en</dc:language>
 <generator>CommunityServer 2007 SP1 (Build: 20510.895)</generator>
 <item>
   <title>Comments on my recent benchmarks.</title>
   <link>http://misfitgeek.com/blog/aspnet/comments-on-my-recent-benchmarks/</link>
   <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:33:59 GMT</pubDate>
   <guid isPermaLink="false">c06e2b9d-981a-45b4-a55f-ab0d8bbfdc1c:7166225</guid>
   <dc:creator>Misfit Geek: msft</dc:creator>
   <slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
   <wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://weblogs.asp.net/aspnet-team/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=7166225</wfw:commentRss>
   <comments>http://misfitgeek.com/blog/aspnet/comments-on-my-recent-benchmarks/#comments</comments>
   <description>Overall I’ve been pretty impressed ...</description>
   <category domain="http://weblogs.asp.net/aspnet-team/archive/tags/ASP.NET/default.aspx">ASP.NET</category>
 </item>
</channel>
</rss>

var items = feed.Root.Element("channel").Elements("item");

XName.Get("{mynamespace}root");
//or
XName.Get("root", "mynamespace");

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SQL ...

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SQL ...

StackTrace stackTrace = new StackTrace();
StackFrame stackFrame = stackTrace.GetFrame(1);
MethodBase methodBase = stackFrame.GetMethod();
Type callingType=methodBase.DeclaringType;

---+ 01/02/2011 02:19:24.98 +---
-- Void ASP.feedback_aspx.ProcessRequest(System.Web.HttpContext) [File=App_Web_4nvdip40.5.cs, Line=0]
--- Void Prog.Web.UserCtrls.FeedbacksList.Page_Load(System.Object, System.EventArgs) [File=FeedbacksList.ascx.cs, Line=23]
---- Void Prog.Web.UserCtrls.FeedbacksList.BindTo() [File=FeedbacksList.ascx.cs, Line=43]
----- System.Collections.Generic.IList`1[Feedback] Prog.GetAllUserFeedbacks(Int32) [File=FeedbackWebRepository.cs, Line=66]

SELECT ...
@p0 = 3 [Type: Int32 (0)]